Systematic Instruction Training

Help your staff to implement this effective teaching technique for building skills

In research conducted by Dr June Alexander she discovered that people with intellectual disability often have goals to learn skills and build their independence in their NDIS plans, yet NDIS capacity building funding is underused.  

One of the problems she found is that staff staff often see their job as providing activities but not necessarily skill building.  Another is that they often don’t know how to implement techniques for teaching people with intellectual disabilities.

The Systematic Instruction Project aims to enable disability support staff to use systematic instruction to help the people they support to learn skills.

What is systematic instruction?

Systematic instruction is a highly effective teaching technique for helping people with intellectual disability to learn skills like independent living skills such as preparing a meal, stacking the dishwasher, making the bed, mowing the lawn and more.

The technique is a very involves breaking down the task into a series of steps and using a variety of prompting techniques. It is a very respectful, low stress way of supporting a person with intellectual disability to learn.  Watch the video below to see it in action. 

The Systematic Instruction Project Includes..

Mentoring from Dr June Alexander

We know that without mentoring, success is less likely so participants are mentored in small groups of no more than 5 people for more personalised support.

June has been working in the disability sector for over 30 years.  She specialises in training for both staff working in the disability field and people with intellectual disability. 

Peer Support

We also know that it’s important to be surrounded by supportive peers on the same journey to keep motivated and to help with problem solving.

With this in mind, participants will have access to a peer support forum where participants can support each other in the implementation of systematic instruction.

12 Month access to online training

There are 16 online lessons that are very short (no more than 7 minutes) making them easy to fit into a participant’s schedule.  

The lessons, practice activities, tasks and mentoring sessions all up require approximately 10 hours to complete.

Each participant will have 12 months access to the online training so they can go back over what they have learned.

Project Overview

Module Covers: 

What systematic instruction looks like and the kinds of tasks that suit using systematic instruction techniques.

Participants identify a task that they would like to support someone to learn using systematic instruction.

Module Covers:

Using the techniques of systematic instruction including:

  • Writing a task analysis
  • Using prompts
  • Saying “try another way”
  • Allowing intitiation
  • Limiting verbal instruction
  • Errorless learning

Module Covers:

  • Working with a person with intellectual disability to help them learn skills.
  • Using video to review and improve the use of systematic techniques

Module Covers:

How to collect data to track progress and identify areas for improvement


Price:

$1997 per cohort of 5 students

To ask questions or get started...

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